Doing Justice: A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

Ian McEwan’s latest novel features synthetic humans that are that bit too evolved for comfort, writes Hannah Stephenson

Arundhati Roy tells Sue Leonard why it took 20 years to write her second novel after her Booker Prize win with her first. She was talking to her characters all that time she explains

Review: Mary Arrigan

“If the written word could cure rheumatism I think hers might, like a dock leaf laid on a sting”

* The Little Black Sheep by Elizabeth Shaw [O’Brien €6.99]

Professor Charles Spence once won the Ig Nobel prize for his work on the crunch sound crisps make and how this gives clues about how stale they are. 

If you are a sighted person and wonder what it might be like to lose the visual world, the gripping Notes On Blindness will challenge your preconceptions about the condition and leave you reeling at the complexities of a life deprived of sight.

The theft of a €1.4m Stradivarius violin from Pret a Manger at Euston Station in London threw its owner, Korean-born child prodigy and violin genius Min Kym, into the spotlight in 2010. However, her suffering continued long after the headlines had died down.

Ross Raisin’s arrival on the literary scene was somewhat explosive with a stunningly crafted debut in 2008. God’s Own Country was a truly remarkable book. 

There’s no easy answers to life’s crises when our beliefs begin to fade.

Ireland’s folkloric past provides a rich seam for an Australian novelist to follow on from the success of her last novel, writes Sue Leonard.

In December last year Donald Trump took to twitter to lambast the United Nations calling it “a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time”. 

What possessed seemingly cultured men to implement a policy of barbarism against the Jews of Europe? Laurence Rees seeks the answer in what JP O’Malley considers to be a magisterial undertaking of research.

* School Gremlins by Adam and Charlotte Guillian (Egmont, €8.20) 

Pascoe argues that women are merely animals with very large 40,000 year old brains. The fat on our bottoms has evolved for pleasing males so why, she asks, do we hate it so?